GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. TRANS-MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT, Numbers 22.
Shreveport, La., March 14, 1865.

Until further orders the ration of corn will be eight pounds, excepting in the case of artillery horses and animals continuously engaged in hauling supplies from one post to another.

By command of General E. Kirby Smith:

S. S. ANDERSON,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

SHREVEPORT, March 14, 1865.

Major-General MAGRUDER,

Lewisville, Ark.:

General Smith desires to know if you receive the cipher dispatch of March 8.

P. H. THOMSON,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS TRANS-MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT,
Shreveport, March 14, 1865.

Major General J. G. WALKER,

Commanding District of Texas, &c.:

GENERAL: The general commanding directs me to say that he has ordered General Maxey to report to you, to be assigned to the command of the division to be formed of the dismounted cavalry and King's old Texas brigade. The command will be formed into two brigades. He further directs that a third brigade be formed, withdrawing one Regiment from each of the infantry brigades, commanded respectively by Brigadier-Generals Hebert and Harrison, and one of the three dismounted regiments (Anderson's, Bradford's, or Gillespie's). The regiments withdrawn from Hebert's and Harrison's brigades will be replaced by the two other dismounted regiments. He directs that this brigade be attached to Maxey's division. He further directs that the cavalry commands of your district be organized into one brigade.

I am, general, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

W. R. BOGGS,

Brigadier-General and Chief of Staff.

HEADQUARTERS TRANS-MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT,
Shreveport, March 15, 1865.

Honorable john C. BRECKINRIDGE,

Secretary of War:

SIR: I have the honor to call your attention to the great need of funds for military purposes in this department as set forth in the inclosed papers, being copies of a correspondence between the Honorable p. W. Gray, C. S. Treasury agent, Trans-Mississippi Department, and myself upon this subject, and also of a letter from Judge Gray to the honorable Secretary of the Treasury, and estimate of pay funds. The Treasury agents have not succeeded in crossing sufficient funds to this department. Over $50,000,000 are already due for the pay of troops alone. I respectfully urge that Colonel Phil. Stockton and Major Richard Howard,